Dear fellow pocketfasters – I am going to go to bed early too as for some reason I want to eat again tonight — maybe its the anticipation of a 48 hr B2B which started a couple of hours ago.

We are all on our way by now — stay strong:

Weeme
Pissupoosa
Goldensun
Yirrukuri
Jarbia
ROcky65
Coda
Laddie10 – hey, that’s me!

Day 25. Québec. NFD

Big news today. My husband decided to fast like I do. I explained everything and he is starting tomorrow. That’s cool !

Day 26 – Tokyo Japan – NFD – 80.7kg.

Interesting that when I felt flabby and fluffy I weight less than when I’m feeling tighter and leaner. Guess I’m just a water balloon.

Day 26 UK NFD

Hi all, have a good day, good luck pocketeers and everyone whatever day you are having FD or NFD.

😀👍

Day 26 -Staffordshire UK-FD

Day 25 Ireland NFD
Day 26 FD
Day 27 FD

Good morning fellow pocketeers. I started last night after dinner at 6pm …. and woke up hungry during the night and then was panicking about I would manage today. Any way have had 2 cups of tea, am planning a cup a soup at lunch and then a 400 cal meal in evening with family, and a similar plan for Friday.
Hunger this morning is not so bad now that I’ve had the tea!
Knowing that there is a group of us doing it together is very helpful for me.
We can do it!
Weeme
Pissupoosa
Goldensun
Yirrukuri
Jarbia
ROcky65
Coda
Laddie10

Love the joke about resistance training! it is so true 😏

Day 26 : Cheshire, UK : FD

Yesterday was a successful liquid fast day. Didn’t think I could do it because all day Tuesday I just felt hungry, although I stayed strong and ate under my TDEE. I think I didn’t drink enough.

Also, I think I’ve was a little confused when the b2b pocketeer’s fast started. I didn’t realise it was Wednesday evening. No worries, I’m still in but maybe today won’t be a liquid fast. I’m sure I can go through to Saturday morning….she says optimistically 🙂

@rocy65 – my pleasure. Bach Flowers really help me in all kinds of different situations. Hugs back xoxo

@debster251 – I am. I think I’ve had a “whoosh” in my spiritual practices 🙂 Congratulations on yours btw!

@anna6 – thinking of you today xoxo

@bert1802 – Gosh! I was astounded at your co-worker’s comments and lack of boundaries. Loved your dignified but to the point response.

@lilymartin – what are ‘snags’? My brother and his family live on the Gold Coast and my mum is currently there visiting them. Easier to ask you though 🙂

Love and hugs to everyone. Stay strong whether you’re on a FD or CD/NFD.

Day 26 Cornwall UK

Pamie We love NZ our daughter lives in Taupo now, but used to live near Huntly. My brother lives in Christchurch. We’ll be out there again next year.

Hannahwatto congrats on new bras, I did that recently, very uplifting in more ways than one!

Fuvvie we also have the ‘tarting up’ saying!!

Pocket fasters day two, lets stick together today, thankyou for your support!!

I slept really well last night, the first good night for ages, the anxieties always come at night! I got a book from the library, Buddas book of sleep – mindful meditation, really helpful!!

Lillymartin, love your resistance quote! Made me laugh and so true!

Positive thoughts to all fasters today!

Day 26 Australia Day – NFD

Indulged but not extreme. A neighbour brought along real home made lamingtons! They were so good. Luckily just enough for one each.

@fuvvie (and other Strayens and Kiwis) yes our slang is delightfully vulgar – I just love it. I laugh myself silly every single time we need to do a U-turn and I say to my OH ‘just chuck a youey… ‘ Yes, small minds, I know… 😄

Day 26 Belfast NFD
Happy Margo I love getting new bras but I HAD to get one very quickly into this diet because the first weight loss happened from the wrong places! And I can’t afford to lose it there! Lol! (TMI) but it was worth it.
BrightonBelle it took me from last April to September to lose a stone. However, and more important, I didn’t do the diet for 2 months. I just did 16:8 and easily maintained my weight with a few (!) glasses of wine and deserts. So hang on in there. We’re in it for the long haul, and not instant success.
Ciren lots of hugs over the Internet. I’m holding your hand from afar!
Fuvvie, we would use the same expression. In fact I’ve just spent a couple of months tarting up my kitchen! Which reminds me, LilyMartin did your kitchen get underway? I’m finished except for the splashback, which I’ll order next week.
Off for a few days now. Control is the name of the game! Have a good day all.

Hi UK day 36 fd

Yes it’s funny to learn different terms from around the world. As Debster as said ‘tarting’ something up is also used here. I had to Google snags and Lamingtons though to see what they were. We sometimes call sausages bangers. Hope down under all had a good Australian day.

So far so good on my fast – yoga tonight so won’t be home till late and family will have sorted their own dinner.

Day 26 USA (Illinois) – NFD

quick post – busy day planned —

I have always enjoyed the international flavor to this board, learning about other food, experiencing seasons we don’t have here, sports rivalries, and especially our differing lingo. Learned new words today “tarting up” and still wondering what “damper” is.

Quebecoise – congrats on getting your hubs to join you in our WOL! When I started mine, my DH was very ill and needed to gain weight, so as I lost he gained. We passed each other about 175. He’s much healthier now, thank the Lord.

New clothes, including bras, have been my experience too. I still have a few that don’t fit me right. But I am gradually replacing items. That has been fun!

Have a terrific day, one and all.

Onward and downward!

Day 26 – Australia Day – NFD
Got up early to mow the lawn and also a little weeding before heading to Mum’s for lunch. Grateful for the Day off. Watching a bit of the australian open with Federer off to the final. Back to Work tomorrow 🙁 FD on for tomorrow as well. Time to head to sleep. Good night everyone.

Georgia/USA/Day 26/ FD: hard to believe this month is almost over! Here comes February!

Good morning: day 25 FD
Day 26: NFD
I don’t think I put in my day yesterday throughout my posts. I feel great after dong a B2B. I hope all my pocketpals hung in there. I broke the 150lb mark and maintained it all day yesterday. Let’s hope I don’t fall too hard off on my NFDs. Grrrrr

Day 26/ Midwest USA/ FD

Hello everybody. In addition to enjoying our connection on these posts, I have been
trying out recipes from the Fast Diet Cookbook. Yummy! And so easy with the calories already sorted out. The High Energy Breakfast on page 39 is both tasty and satisfying.

FD. Day 26. New York, USA.

Busy day, will catch up on posts later. Can’t believe January is almost over. So glad I joined this group. I know for a fact I would not have stuck with this WOL if I hadn’t had you all here, and — probably as importantly — if I hadn’t joined this particular challenge.

I’m thinking back to Bertie’s post about being frustrated by how slow this has been even while noting that clothes are literally falling to the ground when we try them on… lol

and it occurred to me that we put the weight on very very slowly too… sometimes so slowly we were really shocked at how much it added up to after a year or three. At least I know I was.

So the process is exactly the same, either direction: slowly, slowly, slowly, then surprised (in a good way for the downward slide, and in a terrible way for the upward slide) when we really wake up and look. I’m thinking that the weighing every day, even though it sometimes really frustrates me, makes me also stay in reality, and face up to what’s actually happening. I think up until November (the end of the time when I wasn’t weighing, wasn’t looking, was telling myself it was all FINE FINE FINE), I just kind of “coincidentally” was choosing clothes that are a little looser/baggier/designed to let me gain a few, and lose track of how much weight I’m gaining, as long as I didn’t get on the scale. Then, I finally took a deep breath and hopped on. Crikey. 165. In 2008, I was 136. In eight years, I had gained almost ***30*** pounds. Mostly by just looking the other way… and losing track completely. It was not a good feeling. But now I have hope.

Broke through the 159 barrier and weighed at 158.8 pounds this morning!! Sometime in November I was 165; on January 1 or 2 I was 164; on January 4, I weighed 162.8. So this is almost 31 days to lose 4.0 pounds on this plan. Some of the weight I think I lost between November and January 1, and I honestly started at162.4 when I officially weighed in on January 1st; so it’s unclear EXACTLY what was going on. My first FD was January 2nd, and it’s funny to think back now, but I was honestly petrified when I realized I was setting out to fast until dinner. Also, I realize I was unrealistic: I honestly thought, when I set that goal, to lose five pounds in January, that if I did most things right, I would lose closer to 7 pounds, and be down to 155.

Funny.

But now that I see how hard it’s been and how hard CONSISTENCY has been, I have more respect for these four pounds (from January 4) or 6.2 pounds (from November something or other).

Day 26, Oceanside CA, NFD 153.1 lbs

Today is our 10 week anniversary on Fast 5:2. I have lost a total of 5.3 lbs and DH has lost 16 lbs. Slow and steady is our MO. The rhythm of the FD/NFD WOL keeps us on track.

NFD’s are nutritous low carb days with plenty of protein and some good fat. FD’s are the same, just less of the good stuff and very mimimal carbs. IF works for us.

Daily exercise, walking and tracking with my Fitbit, is also an important element to our program.

Day 26 – Cumbria UK – FD

Doing a FD today instead of my usual Friday as I’m taking the OH out for a posh dinner tomorrow night, it was part of his xmas presents!! Thinking of extending my FD until dinner tomorrow night – will see how I go…….Will weigh in tomorrow instead of Saturday as usual for the week.

Physio assessment this morning for knee at last – although it has started to feel better! The Physiotherapist thought I had a small tear in the cartilage in my knee!!! “Meniscal tear” and she could also feel and see swelling relating to my “Baker’s cyst” She did some manipulations, applied ice and laser treatment – taped up the knee and gave me an exercise regime to strengthen the supporting structures of the knee, such as the quadriceps and hamstring muscles. Told me to avoid twisting motions with the knee, apparently the tape will let me know if I’m doing any twisting as it will pull!!!!!

@lany36 – as others have said Dr M originally stated eating 500cals on FD and whatever you want on the other 5 days but he has since amended this to say 1/4 of your TDEE on the FD and to stay within your TDEE on the NFD (so not eating whatever you want!) I did find that I plateaued for several months but by changing things up – e.g. trying 16:8 days on my NFDs (2 meals instead of 3 and no snacking) or doing B2B FDs or water only (with tea/coffee with a dash of skimmed milk) FDs, these variations did trigger my downward weight loss again. We all experiment and find what suits us and allows us to keep losing weight – good luck with your journey.
@brightonbelle – well done – Remember our WOL is not a diet it’s a healthier lifestyle!
@ciren2 – We have your back always – “When you feel like quitting just ask yourself why you started”
@biddiev – hope your street party for Australia Day was good fun – as you say the best thing about our WOL is that you can enjoy treat days with no guilt because you can make up for it on other days!
@bert1802 – Get you standing up for our WOL!!! and happy 4th anniversary!
@lilymartin – loved your resistance training quote – so apt!
@happymargo – loved your organised exercise schedule! You have got this! Accountability is the word for our WOL – you are so right in that we are the only ones who can be accountable for our actions whether that be with our eating habits or exercise

A belated Happy Australia Day for all those in OZ! Was a bit saddened to read about all the demonstrations taking place in the papers over here this morning.

Thinking of all the pocketeers – you have each other’s back – I’ll tag along with you today until tomorrow night – stay strong

For anyone struggling at the moment “Keep you head up. You are so much better than you believe. You can do this. I promise.”

Day 26|FD|Toronto
I am working to develop new “small” habits in my life around movement and exercise. The first is stairs over elevators where possible, second is a 20 minute walk each day. A bigger habit is doing a manageable HIIT exercise program, 3 days a week, such as laid out in FastExercise or the NYT’s 7 Minute Scientific exercise program. Easier thought than done. Anyone else trying a gradual, sustainable ramping up of movement and exercise.

Hi – oh Fuvvie isn’t it strange how things seem so much more sinister when you know you are alone. Sounds you are not aware of. Hope you got back to sleep and the TV stopped scaring you. You will soon settle – no doubt just getting used to it all when everyone will be back to disturb your peace and quiet.

Songbird – I googled Damper previously when it was mentioned – its a type of bread – like soda bread according to google – if you know what soda bread is. We have Soda bread here and UK but not sure if you get it in USA.

Not sure if I said about my dad having an operation on his tongue? The hospital called him back early so we all suspected but dreaded they confirmed they found a cancerous cell. However they said they hoped they got it all and he just needs regular check ups. They said of any cancer to get if your going to get it, this type was best as it didn’t seem to spread round the body. He seems very up beat about it all though.

Hi, can I join in or is it too late. Been doing FDs since September, 16lb loss, no loss the past 2 weeks, but made it through the holidays with out a gain.
Let me know if I can squeeze in or if it’s too late in the month.
Sue

Coda my prayers for your dad. He seems such a robust cheerful man. God bless him.